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skins ready. Then they told them to make some invitation sticks. 

 Only four invitation sticks were to be made, and they were to tie 

 tobacco to each of them. The lodge was now ready (fig. 36). They 

 had fixed the vertical poles and had tied them with prickly cedar 

 sinews. The vertical poles they painted blue. 



Then he who was to be the host told the attendants to take the 

 invitation sticks to certain people. ' ' Bring the first one to my friend, 

 Mqnuba'ga. See that you give it to him. I am sure that he will 

 be here soon after. The second stick you may give to Ks^-o 'saga. The 

 third one you may give to Mqzihimain 'jga. Be sure that you bring 

 them to all those who possess war bundles." 



The attendant did as he was told and returned and told the host 

 that it was done. "I have seen all of them and told them to make 

 ready. They will soon come and sit down." 



All were now in the lodge and were seated. The old man, Ka;-i'ga, 

 was the host. All his posterity were there. He had placed meat in 

 the kettles over the fireplaces. The first kettle was for Earthmaker 

 and the second for Turtle. "Put them on," he said to the attendants. 

 "Put the third one on for the Thunderbird, and the fourth one for the 

 Fire, the fifth one for the Earth, the sixth one for the Morning Star, 

 the seventh one for Without Horn, and the eighth one for the Nights. 

 Tlien put on a small kettle for Disease-giver and a full kettle for the 

 Ruce'we. 



" Hao, we will pour tobacco for them my friend, Manuba'ga. 

 Whenever we can obtain a ' counciling ' we always do this, for in that 

 way we help one another. You who are sitting here for me, bimdle 

 owners, as many of you as there are within this lodge who are taking 

 the place of the spirits, aU of you I greet. War-bimdle owners, all of 

 us are thus. When you obtain a council feast for yourselves, then you 

 will help one another. We are putting ourselves in a very pitiable 

 condition, so you must have thought of us, and that is why 3'ou came 

 at our bidding. It is good. And we are going to make you fearfully 

 tired. But I beg of you, nevertheless, to continue until the end. 

 We are now going to sing." 



They get up and the guests hold tobacco in their hands. Then 

 they sing and weep. The one who was fasting at that time stood at 

 the war bundle crying. Then they sang the following songs : 



Human, four chunks of meat I give you. 



Human, four chunks of meat you will eat. 



I made it for you, for you who carry the war bundle. 



Thus they spoke standing and weeping, pouring tobacco upon the 

 war bundle. This they did. Then Turtle songs were used. That is 

 what they call them. After that they used Thunderbird songs, and 

 then what are called friends' songs. Finally they used the songs 

 .they obtained when Disease-giver blessed them. Four songs they 



